-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- "Brian Loe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>No, Fight Club was simply blowing up "all" of the credit companies. >This is more along the lines of shutting down ALL water, natural gas, >electric and financial systems. Funny that SCADA/DCS networks have >been getting some airtime of late - the more they make connections to >it the more likely something like this is possible and not just a >Hollywood nightmare. > >There are utilities out there that if you got in you'd have water, >power and a lot of street lights to play with...very bad. > True enough. I've a number of conversations with several people on this issue in the past few months that go something along the lines of: Me: "You'd be shocked if you knew the extent of the problem." Them: "Huh? Aren't critical systems like electrical power, etc. not connected to the Internet?" Me: "You'd think they wouldn't be, but you'd be wrong." Some astoundingly stupid business decisions may put critical infrastructure at risk? How you ask? Consider this simple scenario. A regional electric company wants to remotely read residential meters for electric consumption, but does not want to invest in installing their own infrastructure (read: laying new fiber or hybrid-fiber coax [HFC]) to do so, and makes a business decision (everything boils down to dollars and cents) to use existing infrastructure (read: Internet VPN-style connectivity) to accomplish this feat. Boggles the mind, eh? This exact scenario exists today. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGhce6q1pz9mNUZTMRAraOAJ92XQnd46go/1yCrWqecfsR3yp2twCfd2vk 3KWRtJAQkmMry0FZ+Ot92M4= =GT/R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
